THIS WEEK IN ALASKA ANCHORAGE VOLLEYBALL...
 
Thursday, Sept. 23 – Alaska Airlines Center – Anchorage, AK – 7 pm ADT
Montana State Billings (4-6, 1-1 GNAC) at Alaska Anchorage (9-5, 2-0 GNAC)
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Saturday, Sept. 25 – Alaska Airlines Center – Anchorage, AK – 2 pm ADT
Seattle Pacific (6-3, 2-0 GNAC [9/23 @UAF]) at Alaska Anchorage
 
LIVE VIDEO: Both matches free on UAA Seawolves YouTube channel
 
LIVE STATS: goseawolves.com/sidearmstats/wvball/summary
 
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UAA PROBABLE STARTERS (2021 stats)
S—Ellen Floyd, 5-10, Jr. (9.80 aps, 0.86 kps, .120 att%, 3.16 dps, 0.45 bps, 0.55 ace/set)
RS—Eve Stephens, 6-1, Jr. (3.75 kps, .259 att%, 2.29 dps, 0.84 bps, 0.47 ace/set)
OH—Lisa Jaunet, 5-10, So. (2.55 kps, .175 att%)
MB—Vera Pluharova, 6-2, Sr. (1.90 kps, .333 att%, 0.88 bps)
MB—Akor Maywin, 6-2, Jr. (1.51 kps, .377 att%, 0.90 bps)
DS—Reilly Plumhoff, 5-5, Fr. (2.18 dps, 0.67 aps)
L—Talia Leauanae, 5-8, Jr. (3.29 dps, 0.57 ace/set)
 
THE SERIES...
vs MSUB: UAA leads 51-11 overall, 26-5 at UAA
Last: UAA 3-1 (10/24/19 at MSUB) / Streak: UAA 4
Notes: The Seawolves have won 19 of the past 20 meetings, including 3-1 wins in both 2019 contests ... MSUB's lone win last decade was a 3-1 upset in UAA's 2017 home finale ... teams have not played a 5-setter since 2008 ... UAA leads 20-6 since MSUB joined the GNAC in 2007, including 20-4 under Chris Green ... MSUB is UAA's 2nd-most common opponent, trailing only UAF … teams met twice per season every year from 1985-2000 as members of the Pac West.
 
vs SPU: UAA leads 30-29 overall, 15-8 at UAA
Last: UAA 3-2 (3/20/21 at SPU) / Streak: UAA 4
Notes: UAA has won 15 of the last 16 meetings to retake the series lead for the first time since 1993, when it led 3-2 ... the Seawolves
have won five of the first six meetings at the Alaska Airlines Center, with SPU's lone win coming by a 3-2 score, Nov. 1, 2018 ... UAA is 21-5 against SPU under head coach Chris Green and leads 23-15 in GNAC matches ... first meetings came in 1991 as members of the Pac West Conference.
 
SCOUTING THE FOES: Montana State Billings snapped a six-match losing skid with its 3-0 sweep of Northwest Nazarene on Saturday ... the Yellowjackets are 0-2 against common opponents, having lost twice at Chaminade ... MSUB is led by Bayli Monck (3.42 kps, .260 att%, 2.61 dps) and Joelle Mahowald (2.08 kps, .261 att%, 1.19 bps) ... after losing its first three matches, Seattle Pacific has ripped off six straight wins as it prepares to play at UAF on Thursday ... the Falcons are 2-0 against common opponents, beating Biola (3-2) and Hawaii Pacific (3-0) ... SPU is led by Maddie Batiste (2.77 kps, .156 att%, 2.23 dps) and Hannah Hair (2.39 kps, .331 att%, 1.65 bps).
 
BACK ON TRACK: After suffering their first three-match losing streak since 2013, the Seawolves bounced back last week to start Great Northwest Athletic Conference play with road victories over Saint Martin's and Western Oregon … at SMU, So. OH Lisa Jaunet ripped 15 kills and Jr. S Ellen Floyd had 40 assists and 18 digs to lead an 18-25, 25-14, 23-25, 25-13, 15-9 comeback victory … Jr. RS Eve Stephens accounted for 13 kills and 6 block assists, OH Mahala Kaapuni had 12 kills and a career-high 9 digs, and Jr. MB Akor Maywin tallied a career-high 11 kills on .389 hitting as UAA extended the longest winning streak in program history to 26 in a row over the Saints … on Saturday, Stephens had 13 kills and Jaunet had 12 kills on career-best .476 hitting to roll past Western Oregon 25-14, 25-21, 25-22 … Floyd dished 33 assists and Jr. L Talia Leauanae managed 12 digs and a pair of aces to help the Seawolves defeat the Wolves for the 16th straight time.
 
TEAM NOTES: The Seawolves are playing their first GNAC home match in exactly 22 months, having last faced Saint Martin's at the Alaska Airlines Center on Nov. 23, 2019 ... UAA leads the early GNAC statistics with 2.24 aces per set (18th nationally) and ranks third in attack pct. (.221) and kills per set (12.55) ... the Seawolves are pursuing their 14th consecutive winning season, trying to extend the program record that began with Chris Green's arrival at UAA in 2008 ... the Seawolves are 74-17 (.813) at the Alaska Airlines Center since its opening in Sept. 2014 and 121-29 (.807) at home since 2009; UAA has never lost consecutive matches at the Alaska Airlines Center ... UAA has reached the 20-win plateau 14 times in its 39 full seasons and seven times in 12 full seasons under Green ... UAA is also trying to extend program-best streaks of 11 straight winning conference records and top-4 GNAC finishes ... the Seawolves are 20-15 against AVCA Top 25 teams since 2014 and 30-42 overall vs. ranked opponents under Green; prior to Green's arrival, UAA had lost 32 straight to ranked foes.
 
EVE OF DESTRUCTION: Jr. RS Eve Stephens has gotten her fourth collegiate season off to a rousing start as the GNAC Preseason Player of the Year earned GNAC offensive player-of-the-week accolades for her performance in Hawaii, then followed with all-tournament honors at the Seawolf Invitational and the Nanook Classic ... the 2019 AVCA Second Team All-American and two-time unanimous All-GNAC honoree has hit .259 thus far and ranks 2nd in the GNAC in both kills (3.75) and points (4.65) per set ... the Palmer (Colony HS) product has five double-doubles this year and 23 for her career after leading the GNAC in both kills and points per set in 2019 and 2020-21 ... with 1,196 career kills, Stephens has already risen to No. 4 on UAA's career list, and she needs 52 more to catch Cheri Knox (1,248, 1987-90) for No. 3 ... on UAA's other career lists, she currently ranks 3rd in kps (3.68), 8th in attack percentage (.284), 10th in block assists (247), 13th in total blocks (262) and 15th in victories (62) ... a star in the classroom as well, Stephens was voted CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 in 2019 with her GNAC-best 4.00 GPA in accounting.
 
THINK FLOYD: Another preseason All-GNAC pick, Jr. S Ellen Floyd captured GNAC Defensive Player of the Week honors for her effort in Hawaii and was an all-tournament pick at the Seawolf Invitational ... the 2019 All-GNAC selection and AVCA honorable mention All-American leads the GNAC with 0.58 aces per set and ranks 3rd in the GNAC in both assists per set (9.80) and aces per set (0.55), along with 14th in digs per set (3.16) – all while piloting an offense that has outhit its opponents .221 to .155 ... she has produced double-digit digs in 10 of 14 outings, finishing with 17 digs and tying her career high with 7 kills in the win Chaminade, and tallying 52 assists and 19 digs in the win over Biola ... with 1.5 seasons remaining, Floyd is on pace to break UAA's all-time assists and aces records, already standing 4th with 3,116 assists and 3rd with 142 aces (needs one to tie Leah Swiss [2014-17] for 2nd) ... her other career ranks stand at 3rd in assists average (9.41 aps), 3rd in aces per set (0.425) and 14th in victories (64).
 
'WOLF BITES: Sr. MB Vera Pluharova got her fifth and final season started in style, hitting a team-high .394 on the Hawaii trip, producing 7-plus kills in all four matches ... in the second match against Hawaii Pacific, she broke the 20-year-old school record for attack percentage, hitting .917 (career-high-tying 11 kills, no errors, 12 attacks) to lead that sweep ... in her fourth year as a starter, Pluharova ranks 2nd in the GNAC with her .333 attack pct. and is 15th with 0.88 bps ... Pluharova ranks 5th on UAA's career list in blocks per set (1.09), plus 4th in block assists (338), 7th in total blocks (3780, needs six to tie for 6th), 11th in attack pct. (.269) and tie for 12th in victories (71) ... Jr. L Talia Leauanae is one of four Seawolves with three-plus years of experience in Green & Gold, and she has started 2021 well with 3.29 digs per set (13th in GNAC) and 0.57 aces per set (2nd in GNAC and  37th nationally) ... the Maui native had 2 aces and 7 digs to help hold Hawaii Pacific to -.045 hitting in the Aug. 28 sweep, 14 digs and a career-high 4 aces in the win over Chaminade, and a UAA season-high 21 digs in the loss to CSU-Pueblo ... Leauanae ranks 15th on UAA's career list with 3.13 digs per set ... Jr. MB Akor Maywin is finally healthy after a pair of injury plagued seasons and producing a high level ... the Texan leads the GNAC with a .377 attack percentage after producing career highs in kills in three of the last five matches (8 vs CSU-Pueblo, 10 vs CSULA, 11 at Saint Martin's) ... Maywin also leads the Seawolves and ranks 14th in the GNAC with 0.90 blocks per set ... So. OH Lisa Jaunet had her most productive weekend as a Seawolf at SMU and WOU, raising her hitting percentage from .150 to .175 with 27 total kills ... the St. Denis, France, native and State College of Florida transfer had her second-most kills (15) against the Saints and hit a career-best .476 (12 kills-2 errors-21 attacks) against the Wolves ... Jaunet ranks 18th in the GNAC with 2.55 kills per set.
 
GREEN MACHINE: Having led UAA to an unprecedented 13 straight winning seasons, UAA head coach Chris Green (276-106, .722) has established himself as the most successful coach in program history and one of the top mentors in the NCAA Div. II ranks, earning his fifth GNAC Coach of the Year award in 2019 ('09, '13, '15, '16) ... the 2016 AVCA D-II National Coach of the Year and 3-time AVCA D-II West Region Coach of the Year (2009, '15, '16), Green has led UAA to NCAA Tournament berths in eight of the last 10 full seasons, capturing No. 1 seeds in 2015 and 2016, and piloting the Seawolves to the national title match in 2016 ... in the 28 years before Green's arrival, the Seawolves made just two NCAA appearances ... UAA has won at a .771 clip (185-55) since the start of the 2013 campaign, including .831 (113-23) in league play ... Green's UAA teams have produced eight All-Americans, five GNAC Players of the Year, six GNAC Newcomers of the Year and five GNAC Freshmen of the Year ... hired in Feb. 2008 as the sixth coach in UAA Volleyball history, Green spent the previous nine seasons (1999-07) as the head coach at Western Nebraska Community College, where he built a powerhouse program ... among his list of accomplishments at WNCC were a 453-55 record, the 2007 NJCAA Div. I national championship, 2006 NJCAA runner-up, and four straight 'Final 4' berths ...  the Cougars finished in the top 10 at the national tournament in all of Green's seasons, producing a total of 10 first-team and six second-team All-America certificates ... in 2011, he was inducted into the NJCAA Hall of Fame.
 
2021 Individual Honors
ELLEN FLOYD
Seawolf Invitational All-Tournament Team
GNAC Defensive Player of the Week, Aug. 23-29
Preseason All-GNAC Team
EVE STEPHENS
Nanook Classic All-Tournament Team
Seawolf Invitational All-Tournament Team
GNAC Offensive Player of the Week, Aug. 23-29
Preseason All-GNAC Team
GNAC Preseason Player of the Year
 
UAA School Records Broken/Tied in 2021
INDIVIDUAL
Match
Best Attack Pct. (min. 11 attacks) — .917 [11-0-12] by Vera Pluharova at Hawaii Pacific, Aug. 28 (old record: .909 [10-0-11] by Janelle Veith vs Seattle, 10/20/01)
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MISC.
Most Consecutive Wins vs Opponent — 26 vs Saint Martin's, 2008-current